Word: procession
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...ever since Castro signed an agreement with the visiting Soviet trader, Anastas Mikoyan, last February to sell Russia 5,000,000 tons of sugar and buy 10 million bbl. of Russian oil (half a normal year's needs) in return. Castro's government asked the refineries to process the Russian crude. They consulted and refused. For a time, the Cubans did not press further. But three weeks ago, a Cuban economic mission traveled to Moscow and signed an agreement to buy additional Soviet oil at a price that Castro claimed as $1 less than...
Those who can pay generally find the process expensive-win or lose; lawyers' fees and court costs range up to $5,000. But the poor-contrary to widespread belief-may have both items paid for by a fund set up for the purpose. Each case is pondered by at least three of the eighteen auditors (called "black cardinals" for their black, ermine-lined formal vestments), whose dean is white-haired, Pennsylvania-born Msgr. Francis J. Brennan, 65, a veteran of 20 years' service on the Rota...
...Douglas, the registrars are criminally responsible under federal law, and, in fact, on trial. Never before, said Douglas, "has a federal executive agency attempted, over the objections of the accused, to force him through a hearing to determine whether he has violated a federal law." The concept of due process approved by the majority, said he, was "whimsical" and "chameleon-like...
...patients are often right, and his professional colleagues are too often wrong, says Surgeon Moore in the medical journal Lancet. At United Manchester Hospitals he has seen 33 cases of bladder-neck obstruction in women, caused by essentially the same process as prostatitis in men. Four responded to careful medical treatment, but in 29 cases he operated to clear the obstruction by removing pieces of excess tissue in the analogous glands...
...benign cold-sore virus. It apparently gives the monkey nothing worse than fever blisters; in man it is almost invariably fatal. In Salk vaccine these B virus particles were killed by formaldehyde, but in making an oral vaccine of live, attenuated viruses, no inactivating process is used...